Gravity Hook is a hard game to master, but once you’ve got the basics, well it’s just a hard game. But fun. Oh yes. Tags: gravity+hook, game
Read MoreMonthly Archives: December 2008
OVGuide – the ultimate online video and television portal
OVGuide is a comprehensive link portal to just about every mainstream video and online television site on the Interwebs. If you can’t find your favourite show here, it’s probably not online. Yet. Of course in most cases your televisual experience will be..how can we say this…less than optimal in terms of audio and image quality, but it’s a start. OVGuide.com is the Internet’s most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to online video, including TV shows, movies, user-generated content and video games….
Read MoreHappy holidays, Christmas and so on
Just wanted to wish all our lovely Red Ferret readers a fun, relaxing and safe holiday season. Thanks for making my first few months on the job lots of fun and very enlightening. I’ll still be posting the occasional article over the next couple of weeks and my normal service will resume in January. As for Nigel, well the last time I saw him he was muttering something about sun and the Maldives so I don’t know. See you all…
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Season’s Greetings, Happy Holidays and all that groovy fun stuff…
Here’s to a very Merry Time over this holiday season wherever you are. May your wishbone be sturdy, your gravy uncurdled and the trimmings trummed. We’re trying to be sensible this year, but it’s probably not going to work, there’s just too much temptation darn it. Anyway all the best to our readers, supporters, friends and enablers. Here’s to a fun time for all. Here’s a little song for you to help the day go well. We’ll be posting normally…
Read MoreVibe BS NVE-100 Earphones – sound enable your earlobes
There’s good news and bad about Vibe BS NVE-100 Earphones. The good news is they work. The bad is, not very well. So you clip them to your earlobes switch on the powered box and jump as the first twitching, pulsing effect comes from the audio being transmitted through your skin. It’s weird, and something you’re either going to find appealing or downright annoying. Apart from that, they didn’t seem too loud to our ancient ears, nor did the…
Read MoreATC-SIM – play at air traffic control and lose your hair
ATC-SIM is a air traffic control simulator which you can play from your browser. It’s very basic, and incredibly difficult. Which should make the uber geeks smile. [Via] ATC-SIM is a web-based air traffic control simulator. No plug-ins or additional software are required to play. Objective Controllers must route arriving and departing aircraft both safely and accurately. Tags: atc-sim, game
Read MoreVR3 Bluetooth Steering Wheel Console – the original in your face hands free kit
This VR3 Bluetooth Steering Wheel Console gives you up front hands free wireless chat-a-bility on your mobile phone for safety’s sake. Sure it may look ugly on your Jaguar, but on that ‘86 Geo? Not so much. $99.99. In many states, it’s the law: you mustn’t hold a cell phone while driving. And no matter what state you’re in, it’s safer to talk hands-free if you make calls while driving. The console is the solution. It works with your Bluetooth…
Read MoreStarBaron – space skirmish with a twist
The StarBaron game is driving me nutz. It’s kind of a territorial grab game where you have to control star systems faster than your opponents. The fact that you can make your own maps doesn’t make it any easier. Pfaff…. Tags: game, star+baron
Read MorePosting for the holidays – peace and goodwill to all hens…what?
I’m not sure about Dan, ‘cause he’s his own boss around here, but we’re sliding ever so gently into the festive spirit, which means a posting slowdown. This isn’t the official holiday post, that’ll wait until tomorrow, but nevertheless for those of you in countries which celebrate today – like Sweden (hej hej) – have a great time. In the meantime here’s a small but nice collection of free Christmas books from the public domain in PDF format. Enjoy. Tags: happy+holidays
Read MoreMICROspikes – maximum traction action
Maintain your traction this winter with these MICROspikes slip-on spikes for your shoes. Unlike your hard-core crampons which have to be strapped and tightened to your shoes, the MICROspikes slip on easily over your boots or running shoes and will improve your grip on ice, snow or even wet rocks, concrete and scree. The rubber harness slips around your shoe securing the 10mm spikes via stainless steel chain. Might be good for cricket too, dunno about baseball though. Available in…
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Backtrack GPS Finder – the simple simon location finder
The Backtrack GPS Finder lets you quickly log a location at the press of a button and return there later through the beauty of GPS and an on-board digital compass thingy. Well that’s the technical term anyway. So really all it’s doing is giving you a fast way to geo-code a position – like say your car in a very large car park – so you can follow the arrow back to it again. Of course no GPS in the world…
Read MoreRecordable Photo Card – craft your own multimedia greetings card in the real world
It may be a little late for this Yule but this Recordable Photo Card is the perfect way to hit your target with some full on multimedia geekiness. Not only can you add your own cute photo, but also scribble a charming if illegible greeting in a crayon of your choice and record a little song to finish off the whole ensemble. The recipients will be enchanted, until they discover it’s from you and not little Emily. $12.00. [Oh, and…
Read MoreCelluVision Contact Thermography – tracking down cellulite one rippled thigh at a time
CelluVision Contact Thermography helps identify ‘skin temperature alterations which are caused by cellulite’. It looks to be an Italian invention, and we’re certainly not going to comment on the scientific reality behind the use of hot fat flux capacitors like this. Suffice it to say we’ll think more about the issue over a large strawberry milkshake and super-size muffin later this afternoon. Contact thermography enables the user to: * detect cellulite development in the very early stages, when manual systems are unable to do so….
Read MoreMozBackup fail – file size limit cripples large messagebase backups
I hate to do this to a cool Open Source product like MozBackup, but it really let me down the other day when I needed to transfer my email message base across from one machine to another. The backup file was fine, but contained only a small part of my data. Apparently the program can only cope with messagebases up to 4 GB in size. My messagebase is around 12 GB, hence the problem with only getting a portion of my…
Read MoreBirdie – world’s first offline Twitter client with search?
My pal Fahim has just launched a new Twitter client with a twist. Birdie – oh ha ha dude – comes with a nifty interface, some optional and marginally annoying sound effects when Tweets arrive (you guessed it) and the ability to save all incoming stuff in a local database on your computer for offline perusal and manipulation. Now why would you need that, you ask? Well I can think of a lot of reasons why it might be cool to access…
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